Vandals hit surf club
PA Auckland Vandals broke into the Mu- ■ riwai Surf Life-saving Club ; tower and gear shed at Mui riwai Beach yesterday morn- : ing and caused. damage i estimated at $3OOO. The club’s chairman. Mr i lan Hill, said that a jet boat, i an inflatable rubber boat, i and a communications link to a rescue helicopter were damaged. "If anything had gone
wrong today we would not have had the back-up of the helicopter and the jet-boat.” he said. He said it was just as well the sea had dropped a little at the week-end and that there were no bad rips in the area. "If it had been last weekend when we had lots of rescues, it would have been critical there would have been lives lost." Mr Hill said.
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